NHS Student Wins Congressional Award

Noblesville High School student Mobareji Abejide was recently notified by U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz that he won the Congressional App Challenge.

Mobareji’s app focused on improving healthcare communications between doctors and patients and will be displayed at the U.S. Capitol building.  The app, Clarify+, stood out among the record number of apps Spartz’s office received, according to her office.

Abejide will get:

• Certificate from Congresswoman Victoria Spartz (IN-05)
• The Clarify+ app will be displayed on a rotating display in the Cannon House Office Building tunnel leading to the U.S Capitol for one year.
• Clarify+ will also be displayed on the www.house.gov website, and the Congressional App Challenge Winners) page – www.congressionalappchallenge.us
• He will be invited to the House of Code winners’ reception on Capitol Hill next spring. More information with be provided by the Congressional App Challenge/Internet Education Foundation – Sponsor of the CAC.
  He will also invited to complete the ARTS Act Waiver with the U.S. Copyright Office.

The CAC is an initiative of the U.S. House of Representatives, where Members of Congress host contests in their districts for middle school and high school students, encouraging them to learn to code and inspiring them to pursue careers in computer science. The non-profit Internet Education Foundation provides the CAC with supplemental staffing and support. In the ten years of the Congressional App Challenge, the program has yielded over 83,000 App Challenges across all 50 states. Thousands of functional apps have been created for Congress, and participant demographics surpass all industry diversity metrics.

The Congressional STEM Competition began in 2013. It was rebranded as the Congressional App Challenge in 2014.